[Tagging] place=neighbourhood vs landuse=residential

[Justin Tracey]

On 5/7/25 13:19, Evan Carroll wrote:
> I'm from North America. I'm saying either
> 
> * You have two residential areas with names, and a third which has a 
> context only useful for historical relevance. It sounded like you were 
> trying to reserve "neighborhood"  for something which no longer exists 
> as a residential area (which is not a valid use case for it)
> * Or, all three neighborhoods exist in their current form today in which 
> case you have three named residential areas, one of them overlaps the 
> other too (and has an earlier start_date) which is how I read your 
> explanation now when you say " the historic neighborhood exists, it just 
> means the buildings in it are older than elsewhere on average."
> 
> I'm only bringing this up in the context of your statement 
> "neighborhoods and residential areas aren't the same thing, and shouldn't
> be treated as equivalent." They really are the same thing and should be 
> treated as equivalent. A neighborhood is a "residential area" in every 
> use case. And if it ever ceases to be a residential area because of the 
> age or future developments then it's concurrent with that no longer a 
> neighborhood (but still worthy of inclusion under https:// 
> wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ 
> wiki/Historic>).

There is a span of a few city blocks with a name. Within those city 
blocks, there are apartment complexes with multiple buildings that also 
have names. The larger area is a place=neighborhood, and it contains 
landuse=residential+residential=apartments. Please consult the 
respective wiki pages if you are still confused.